Becoming Like Jesus: Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Sanctification

by J. Benjiman Wiles

Although the issue of Sanctification has played an important, though controversial, role since the origins of the Pentecostal movement, there has to this point been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of this theme in the early Pentecostal periodical literature. With this monograph, Dr J. Benjiman Wiles addresses such a lacuna. Beginning with a history of the monograph length studies devoted to the subject of sanctification within the Pentecostal tradition, the author next traces the theme in the periodical literature before the rise of William Durham’s Finished Work view, followed by an examination the issue in literature than spans this period, and then an analysis of the literature that follows this division to assess the teaching of early Pentecostalism as it developed. This careful investigation gives way to a fresh revisioning of a Pentecostal theology of sanctification. The volume is destined to establish itself as the go to investigation on the significant issue of Pentecostal sanctification for years to come.

J. Benjiman Wiles (PhD, Bangor University, UK) is Assistant Dean of Academics and Media Coordinator at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Cleveland, TN, USA.

370 pages, Paperback

Published July 12, 2021